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Probably upwards of $15. I don't recall how much generic disposables cost (haven't used them in over five years), so it's totally a guess. But in a month, when the Beastling is born, I suspect it'd be closer to $30 a week.

Well, considering no more money comes out of our bank account, I consider every single diaper free money in our checking account. I last bought 'sposies almost a year ago and it was $10 for enough to last about half a week, so probably $20 a week (fyi I gave half the pack away after finishing our move.)

If I were to use sposies I'd use Tushies most likely since they're gel free and cotton. A week's worth would probably cost us $44 for a box of 120. So we're almost saving $50 a week if we used 10 diapers per day and if you count wipes too!

I imagine the savings per day varies depending on the size disposable diaper you would use. For me since I'll be diapering a newborn soon, I looked at diapering a newborn with approx. 12 changes a day. That's close to $3.30 per day in disposables.

I've been using cloth diapers for a couple months now and love them! I wish I would have started earlier. They are so cute!! I bet we save about $15/week and once the new baby is born sometime later this month…a whole lot more! Double sweet!

Unfortunately due to my cloth diaper addiction I don't think I actually save money but it is better for the environment and this is my first child so I tell myself it will save me tons with the next child 🙂

I have 1 in diapers full time and 1 in diapers at night..My oldest wears a cloth night time pull up…I dont know how much a week but I will say maybe $50.00 a month I have not paid for diapers in a long time…I love it….

I have three kids (3 mo, 2 yrs, 4 yrs). My oldest still wears diapers at night. My middle child is at that stage where she wants to use the potty and constantly takes off her diapers and with disposables would toss them in the trash.

I use cloth wipes as well so that saves some, especially since my second born was caught multiple times 'stealing' disp wipes to clean or whatever.

Assuming an average of 12 diaper changes per day (for my soon-coming newborn), I estimate that we'll save about $15.50 per week. assumptions: initial cd investment= $500; disposibles = $35 for 150; and our little blueberry potty trains around 2.5?

Overall savings over the course of blueberry's diapering life is around $2000. Subsequent 'berries' will amount in extra savings. This is assuming I stick to the $500 initial investment & don't go nuts over fluffies!

Depends on how you look at things – I save at least $20 per week by not using disposables, however, my obsession with cloth has gotten expensive and I probably get a new diaper twice per month, so all said and done I might only save $10 a week right now, but hopefully I can stop myself from buying more for a while so that I start to really see a difference in my savings!

One of my sis-in-laws and I figured out that it took about 10 months using cloth to break even (CD requires lot of up front money). I have a 20 month old so now every week we save $20 ??? Not actually doing the math just guessing

(answering the question) I was spending around $30 every other week for my 2nd child, so half od that would be $15, then add a baby, that would be about $25 every week, so I would say I am saving about $35 dollars every week!! WOW! I love it!

I have no idea how much money we save a week…it has been so long since I bought disposables! Seems how when we DO (rarely) use them we use Seventh Generation, I would guess it would cost us between $10-$14 a week. But we are getting ready for another baby…which would make the cost $20-$28 a week. I think the $10 I budget a month towards cloth diapering (and then buys something ever 2-3 months) is just a drop in that bucket!!!

That's a good question because I don't know how to answer–I wash using community laundry room and pay $1.75 per load (wash and dry). But I have two kids in diapers, and many of my diapers are being reused from the first kid. But whenever I do use disposables, I use the expensive "natural" kind. So it is too complicated and I've never bothered figuring it out; I'm just content to know that I like cloth better, it is better for my kids and the environment, it is cute, and I may be saving some money.

Let's see, my 13 month old is in size 6 diapers. If I were to buy a big pack of pampers cruisers from target that would be 100 diapers for $41.99.

So that's 20 days worth of diapers at 5 changes per day. ($41.99/100) x 5 = $2.10 per day.

$48 worth of prefolds (24). $76.5 worth of covers. Used the same size for the last 6 months (182.5 days) so at 6 diapers/day that's roughly $.68 for every 4 days. So $.17/day (two cents per diaper change).

Before we started using cloth diapers we went through about a box of diapers a week with 2 children so, that's about $20-25 a week! It's been so nice not having to buy diapers! We haven't bought any disposables in over 2 months!! How great is that?

We probably save about 100.00 per week cloth diapering our triplets! We go through about 10 diapers per child per day, whew! Thaqnk goodness for my friend Jessi talking to me about cloth diapering and how easy it was to do, I will NEVER go back to disposables!

I've never really used disposables so it's hard to say how much I spend. I used them for the first few weeks of her life until we had about 9 diapers in our stash and then I just washed them A LOT. From those few weeks, I'd say I use about a package of pampers swaddlers (I liked them as far as disposables go) a week and they're around @20. I broke even for awhile, because I always bought pocket diapers so every few weeks I'd just buy a pocket diaper or two instead of a package of disposables.

Now, I'd say I'm saving, finally and I save about $15-$20 a week. But really, it's hard to say since I've never bought a package of disposable diapers myself. Never will, either.

I just ordered my first cloth diapers. We have been talking about switching for a little while and we have just got the extra money up to order some. We are so excited to get them and can't wait till they arrive.

I honestly don't know how much I'd be spending on disposables because I've never bought them! I think they are 8-10 a pack…and my new baby would use a pack in a couple days. So maybe $30 a week in diapers, and $10 on wipes.

I have double booty duty!! We save an average of twenty dollars because we used to use LUVS when they were smaller (huggies were automatic blowouts)… we just switched from prefolds to bumgenius 3.0s and even the hubby changes diapers now 😉

I first started trying cloth diapers when my first son was a year old to see what I thought. I built up a small stash and then, last year when my 2nd was born, I got more cloth diapers! We started out part-time last Sept. until I had enough to do it full-time and have been doing all cloth diapers since January and absolutely looove them!

If you amortize the initial cost of the cloth diapers and then add in the cost of water/electricity and detergent, I think I save about $5 per week. I would need to buy a $20 pack of disposables every 2 weeks otherwise. Obviously the longer you use cloth, the more you save.

I think I save about $25-25 a week on diapers (including not buying wipes since I use cloth wipes). I figure two jumbo packs a week at 8-10 each and wipes comes to 20+ a week!! sobyn at hotmail dot com

I would say I save about 10 dollars a week for the entire first year of cloth diapering (calculated by: a. adding up the cost of the cloth diapers, detergent, and washing/drying b. subtracting the cloth diaper amount from the approximate amount I would spend on disposables in a year c. dividing the savings over 52 weeks). After the first year it will be all savings minus the amount I spend on washing and detergent 🙂 !

I have no idea…probably not a "ton" weekly since we use Kroger brand diapers (about $5-$7/pk) when we have to use sposies…But that totally adds up over time! (and the money saved not driving to the store, and all the other stuff we'd be compelled to buy while in the store!) 🙂

Per week we use about 56 diapers. That would be about $20 plus a little more for disposable wipes. I've spent a little extra money on my diaper stash for convenience sake (daddy and daycare) and we started when he was already 14 months old. If he potty learns at 2 1/2 years, we'll have spent about $11 a week on the diapers and all the accessories. So, even though we have convenient diapers and started a bit late in the game, we are still saving at LEAST $10 a week by using cloth diapers!

I think I save $10-15 per week, but I'm really for sure because I started CDing when her cord fell off, and before that I used disposables that were gifts…so I haven't had to buy any disposables and track it!

Well, when my daughter wore diapers full time I saved about $20 a week. Now she's only in diapers for sleeping and outings, so now I save beetween $5-10 a week, depending on how often she makes me change her night diaper before she goes to sleep 😛 If she was still in sposies I would hate wasting the dipes, but they are cloth so it's no biggie if I have to use 3 diapers a night!

I've been using cloth diapers for almost 3 years, since my daughter was born. Wait… when I was 10 years old and 15 years old I used cloth diapers on my youngest two sisters, does that count?? That was 15 and 20 years ago!

We save around $15/week – that's an estimate assuming we would be using Luvs otherwise. Maybe a little more, since I never factored in disposable wipes, Diaper Genie refills, or gas for trips to the store to buy diapers. LOVE cloth!

For the first 6 months of cloth diapering I was determined to prove they were cheaper, even doing it the new and improved way with nice cloth diapers, sprayer, wet bags, and everything! The innitial cost of cloth diapering is alot but within a couple months it evened out, and by 5-6 months we were in the green! no pun intended lol. But per week I"d say we save at least $30 in diapers, and then we save by not having to purchase diaper ointments, gas money running to the store for buying diapers, save not having to purchase wipes, …. so much to save on! You'd save even more if you use prefolds and covers! But if you do it the fun way like I do with all the new style pockets or AIO diapers and all the awesome amenities it still saves a quite a bit of money!

We save at least $30 a week on diapers, wipes, not having to use any ointments, etc. even with using the nice pocket diapers and everything else like diaper sprayers it's much cheaper than disposibles!

I guess after washing, the use of water and electric costs, the upfront cost (has paid off two fold) I am saving about $30 or more a week. My almost two year old uses about 5 diapers a day and my almost 4 month old uses…I lost count… so If I was using disposables I would be paying much more than I could afford and pileing up the garbage cans with waste. I used disposables when we flew to visit family and I wanted to cry at the waste in the basket.

I save about $8 a week using cloth diapers. Olivia is 13.5 mos now so she doesn't need changed as often as a smaller baby would. She only was going through about a smaller pack of Luvs a week when we switched. Using cloth for only 3 mos completely covers the amount I jsut spent on new diapers!

I've used cloth on and off for 6.5 yrs now. My oldest is almost 7 and we started when he was 3 mos old and then I've gone back and forth between cloth and sposies for the last 3 kids. My youngest is 13.5 mos and we just made the switch back to cloth full time!